Cao Zi felt like crying, tears welling up in her eyes. She was clearly trying hard to live her life, so why would someone want to steal her things?
When she went up the mountain to collect firewood with Cao Yanfang, she would carry as much as possible down the mountain, for fear of being disliked.
I also learned how to make fire and cook. In the beginning, I got a lot of burns on my hands. It’s only now that I’ve become more skilled.
Those sweet potatoes were also given to her by some villagers when she was teaching the children in the village.
Without sweet potatoes, she would have to eat black-faced steamed buns every day. If she ate too much of that, she couldn't even go to the toilet...
"Don't cry, I'll go out and wake everyone up. You dare to steal things in the educated youth site, it's so brazen!" Cao Yanfang said indignantly.
It must be some lazy guy who didn't have enough food and didn't prepare much firewood, so he stole it.
She has only been in charge of the educated youth center for a short time and already something like stealing has happened. What if Village Chief Yang thinks that her management ability is not good enough?
Thinking of this, Cao Yanfang took a basin, rushed out, and knocked on the door of every room.
Cao Yanfang stood in the yard and banged the bottom of the basin so loudly that no one could fall asleep even if they didn't want to.
"Everyone, get up quickly! Did you hear me? Our educated youth camp has been robbed!"
Wang Yi impatiently sat up from the kang and scratched his head. "Is Cao Yanfang crazy this early in the morning? What is there in our educated youth camp? Even the clean mice are too lazy to come and visit."
"Okay, you don't know Cao Yanfang's temper yet, so just stick to your guns. Since she's shouting outside, she must have discovered something." Qian Wen advised gently.
He is already wearing a cotton jacket.
Liu Daqing remained silent, but he had almost finished cleaning up.
Seeing this, Wang Yi felt it was not possible to stay on the kang any longer, so he had to get up as well.
When he arrived at the yard, Wang Yi saw that except for Yan Wei who was in poor health, everyone had come out. However, everyone looked unhappy, and it was obvious that they were all unhappy to be called up so early in the morning.
"Wow, there are so many people here!"
Wang Yi walked over with his hands behind his back and spoke nonchalantly.
"Now that everyone is here, what happened to Cao Yanfang that she had to wake us up so early in the morning?" Zhu Hongye said with a frown.
Liu Xiaowei was even more surprised. "This is just a show of power for us. It's different when you're an official. You let people stand in the snow in such a cold day."
Cao Yanfang glanced at everyone's faces and said directly, "I definitely wouldn't wake you up for no reason. Some people don't need to assume malicious intent towards me."
"This morning, Cao Zi and I got up to cook. When I went to the storage room to get the carrots, I found that our firewood and Cao Zi's sweet potatoes were missing. They were fine yesterday, but they disappeared today. They must have been stolen!"
"This is too bad. I've been here for so long, but this is the first time I've heard of someone stealing something."
Cao Yanfang said solemnly, "We must get to the bottom of this matter, otherwise we will encourage the thief and make him think we are easy to bully."
The other educated youth were a little shocked. Everyone's firewood and vegetables were stored under a shed outside the storage room. If these were stolen, they would have to prepare them again.
How much energy would it take? We are already living frugally and can barely get enough to eat, so where would we get the energy to chop wood every day?
Everyone ran to the storage room to check the situation. After seeing that only some of the things had been moved, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately not all of them had been stolen.
"What if it wasn't someone from the educated youth site who stole it? It's not easy to talk about this matter casually," said Zhu Hongye.
"But the most likely person is the educated youth. We have separate firewood in each room. You see, most of the stolen firewood was from Cao Zi and I. And Cao Zi's sweet potatoes. These were the food she had managed to get back."
Cao Yanfang said angrily.
Liu Xiaowei chuckled, "What if a hungry animal stole it? Who can tell?"
Hearing this, Cao Zi's face turned pale. "That's absolutely impossible! I have dozens of kilograms of food. It can only be a small animal that can come in and steal things without being discovered. How could it steal so many sweet potatoes in one night?"
What Cao Zi said made a lot of sense. Everyone looked at each other with some suspicion in their eyes.
With a thief around, who would dare to leave anything at the educated youth camp in the future?
"We are together every day, and we all know who has less food and firewood. I hope that if someone really stole something, they will take the initiative to come forward. Otherwise, if it is really discovered, it will be embarrassing for everyone!" Cao Yanfang said sternly.
"What is there to investigate? It's just some firewood." Liu Xiaowei rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "And Cao Zi's sweet potatoes, no one knows where she got them from. Maybe she's been robbed by someone else."
After hearing what Liu Xiaowei said, everyone looked at Cao Zi suspiciously.
Yes, that's where her food comes from.
The situation is so difficult now. The city has come to collect a batch of grain, so there is no grain left in the village.
Cao Zi didn't expect that not only her things were stolen, but also the sewage was splashed on her. "What nonsense are you talking about?! My sweet potatoes were given to me by the villagers because I helped them!"
"Who knows whether what you said is true or false?" Liu Xiaowei said sarcastically.
"you……"
Cao Zi wanted to say more, but Yang Hongying, who lived in the same room with Liu Xiaowei, spoke up, "Okay, Xiaowei, everyone is solving the problem now, why are you doubting Cao Zi?"
"Since none of you are talking, then we will search. If we find it in anyone's room, don't blame me for being ruthless and reporting you to the village chief," Cao Yanfang said seriously.
The reputation of the thief was written into his file, and it would no longer be his turn to be recruited or to return to the city.
"What a joke! You don't have any evidence, so why do you search the room? The police need evidence when investigating a case!" Liu Xiaowei said dissatisfiedly.
"So what do you say we should do?"
"How should I know? I'm not the person in charge of the educated youth center."
Cao Yanfang was angered by Liu Xiaowei's shameless attitude.
"No one else objects except you. Maybe someone is guilty and hasn't had time to transfer the stolen goods yet, so he's afraid of being discovered!" Wang Yi snorted coldly.
"What nonsense are you talking about, Wang Yi!" Liu Xiaowei pointed at Wang Yi angrily.
"If you don't feel guilty, why don't you let everyone search?" Wang Yi said sarcastically.
"Alright, search ahead. If I didn't steal, you have to apologize to me!"
After saying that, Liu Xiaowei went back to her room angrily.
Seeing this, the others followed suit. No one would feel at ease if the truth was not revealed today.
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